Crisis response leads to commercialisation of PPE visor

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A manufacturing collective has proven that strength in numbers can be vital when using innovation to help the UK’s fight against Covid-19.

The demand for PPE during COVID-19 saw the Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN) rally to meet the requirement and then take their product forward to commercialisation.

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The Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN), a group of eight sub-contract manufacturers and a specialist engineering design agency, was eager to help the country’s Covid-19 fight and, after a number of virtual meetings, it was agreed that the collective would pool its disciplines and over £50,000 of resource to develop the manKIND recyclable visor.

There was no point coming up with a variant of what was already out there, so they came up with a product that is lightweight, easy to assemble with a push clip feature, suitable for repeated use, can be easily cleaned (the headband can even be put in a dishwasher) and includes a full peak for better protection.

A project team was assembled, with Grove Design leading on the design and prototyping work, Barkley Plastics on mould tool development and Brandauer supporting the assembly and fulfilment.

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